E-business Contracts

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for E-business skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-business over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 648 800
Rank change year-on-year +112 +152 -121
Contract jobs citing E-business 43 36 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.064% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.071% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 28 23
10th Percentile £475 £513 £438
25th Percentile £510 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £605 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +16.35% -9.57%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £895
UK excluding London median daily rate £603 £600 £463
% change year-on-year +0.42% +29.73% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

E-business is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

E-business
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing E-business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for E-business in the UK

E-business
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing E-business.

Daily rate trend for E-business in the UK

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing E-business over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for E-business in the UK

E-business
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing E-business.

Hourly rate trend for E-business in the UK

E-business
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-business within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +97 28 £625 -4.94% 8
UK excluding London +53 26 £603 +0.42% 7
Work from Home +119 22 £550 -9.09% 5
South East +17 19 £625 +4.17% 1
Wales +20 5 £550 +4.76%
London +91 3 £627 -11.22% 3
Scotland +38 2 £463 -11.90% 2

E-business
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.65%) SAS
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 20 (46.51%) Oracle EBS R12
2 13 (30.23%) Maximo
2 13 (30.23%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (20.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (2.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (16.28%) GitHub
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle ODI
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle Database
2 6 (13.95%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Power BI
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 32 (74.42%) Social Skills
2 22 (51.16%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (41.86%) Finance
4 7 (16.28%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (11.63%) Legal
6 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.33%) Back Office
7 1 (2.33%) Front Office
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Consultant
1 20 (46.51%) Functional Consultant
1 20 (46.51%) Oracle Consultant
1 20 (46.51%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 9 (20.93%) DBA
2 9 (20.93%) HR Consultant
2 9 (20.93%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
2 9 (20.93%) Oracle HRMS Functional Consultant
3 8 (18.60%) Oracle DBA
4 7 (16.28%) Oracle P2P Consultant
5 5 (11.63%) Procurement Officer
6 3 (6.98%) Logistics Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Procurement Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle Applications DBA
7 2 (4.65%) QA Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) QA Test Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Middleware
2 1 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.33%) Ultra Messaging
2 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.33%) Clustering
1 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (2.33%) HP Storage
1 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) AIX
3 1 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (34.88%) DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) Project Delivery
4 9 (20.93%) Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (18.60%) Agile
5 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (16.28%) High Availability
7 6 (13.95%) Migration
8 4 (9.30%) Database Security
8 4 (9.30%) Logistics
8 4 (9.30%) Performance Management
9 3 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (4.65%) Analytics
10 2 (4.65%) Creative Thinking
10 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis
10 2 (4.65%) Data Migration
10 2 (4.65%) Electronic Trading
10 2 (4.65%) Knowledge Transfer
10 2 (4.65%) Project Governance
10 2 (4.65%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) Python
3 1 (2.33%) Bash
3 1 (2.33%) Perl
3 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) CCNA
1 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Data Guard
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (93.02%) Oracle
2 6 (13.95%) Informatica
3 2 (4.65%) SAP
3 2 (4.65%) VMware
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco
4 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.33%) Dell
4 1 (2.33%) HP
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.33%) Solace
4 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.33%) Sun
4 1 (2.33%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.33%) Workday